At the Moody Pastor's Conference they demoed Logos in one of the general sessions since the President is a big Logos fan. One new feature that made me envious was when you copy and paste into MS Word the reference material immediately became an automatic footnote. That was awesome! Could this be done on Accordance?

I can see how this would be profitable, but I would rarely use it in academic writing because all of my citations and reference information goes into my Mellel documents via my bibliographic manager (Bookends right now, but I'm in the process of switching to Sente).

Can I suggest that you keep this in mind when working on this feature? What I think could work is having at least 2 options: The first is how Logos does it— Word generates a footnote with the info that Accordance passes to it. But perhaps a second option is that Accordance passes information that the user has supplied to Accordance on that text.

So, for instance, the NIBC commentary on Luke in Accordance would be tossed out as Evans, Craig A. Luke. NIBC 3. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1990.
I myself would rather it be, {Evans, 1990, #28526} which is the citation for that reference in my Bookends database. This would ensure that my end-result essay contained the citation in both the footnote and bibliography generated by my bibliographic manager.

I myself would rather it be, {Evans, 1990, #28526} which is the citation for that reference in my Bookends database. This would ensure that my end-result essay contained the citation in both the footnote and bibliography generated by my bibliographic manager.

Thanks, Danny

What does #28526 correspond to? I understand the formatting is a temporary citation that when finished is converted, but based on your suggestion it seems we would have to import every resource into Bookends in order to get this specific information. Then, what about Endnote, Refworks, Nota Bene, etc. ?

It seems there are actually two different requests here. 1. Copy-as citation export from Accordance to a word processor (with the possible option of automatically inserting a footnote); 2. Export of citation in a specific format recognized by a citation software program.

The first item is, as David mentioned, being looked into. The second is something that I do think would be nice (as I use citation manager software) but would require some additional work to find out how we could export a citation in a format that would be recognized by all the programs, or for each one individually.